Hamish Kilgour

2022 - 12 - 6

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Hamish Kilgour: co-founder of New Zealand band the Clean dies ... (The Guardian)

The multi-instrumentalist, who had been missing since November, helped create the Dunedin sound of the early 90s and continued to be an influential force in ...

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'Dunedin Sound' icon: The Clean's Hamish Kilgour found dead (Otago Daily Times)

Snapshots over the years are (clockwise from top left) Hamish Kilgour and The Clean playing live in 1999 and in 1990; Kilgour's award-winning record cover ...

there was a creative tension and you could hear that. "He [Hamish] was a great drummer and quite unconventional in the way he played but he always had a great rhythm and a great beat," Scott said. "The first time I saw them at the Gladstone they were clearly really special. "I was really close to Hamish in the early ’80s, when he came to work for us, and he worked pretty hard for three years at a time of growth and craziness and madness, but everyone was always conscious of the music that he was making. "He was quite cynical about us being accepted by the mainstream and took that with a grain of salt because of all those industry people who dismissed us back in the day but then turned around and said that we were actually quite good." I had this idea for a new record label and it was clear to me that they had to be on there, so I pursued them all the way to Auckland to reinforce my interest."

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Bandmate's tribute to the late Hamish Kilgour: He was 'the whole ... (Stuff.co.nz)

"Whenever we were in the same room stuff would happen," Robert Scott says of his chemistry with The Clean bandmates Hamish and David Kilgour.

Construction is booming with Dunedin's hospital rebuild and CBD upgrade. Tourism, migrant workers and international students are returning. His death has been referred to the coroner. *

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'An understated power': Hamish Kilgour of the Clean remembered ... (The Guardian)

Over more than 40 years the New Zealand drummer influenced the sound of bands around the world.

With members split between New Zealand and New York, the Clean were never a constant, and it gave Kilgour time to pursue other projects. He arrived in the US just as it was becoming apparent how much the Clean had rubbed off on many of the bigger bands in the underground scenes. Instead, the Great Unwashed fell apart and Kilgour went on to start another seminal band, Bailter Space, with Alister Parker of the Gordons. The Velvet’s Mo Tucker had a particular impact on Hamish Kilgour; he taught himself to play the drums miming along to the Velvet’s What Goes On from their 1969 live album. Overnight Flying Nun was transformed into a legitimate label and the Clean became sensations with a sound that would reach around the world. Hamish Kilgour had started the Clean two years earlier with his brother David on guitar and vocals.

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